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6. Requirements

JoomlaBoat edited this page Nov 11, 2021 · 3 revisions

PHP Settings

Enable "allow_url_fopen" and "allow_url_include" in "php.ini" file to let Youtube Gallery request thumbnails, titles, descriptions, playlists etc.

If you have shared hosting you may create a file named "php.ini" with lines below and upload it to site root and administrator folders.

allow_url_fopen=on

allow_url_include=on

Refresh Video Lists and clear Joomla cache.

Tip: It may help if you increase timeouts:

  • max_execution_time = 120; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
  • max_input_time = 120; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data

Additional Requirements

PHP Extensions

Install cURL more info here.

Install DOM library, if it is missing.

Security

You may delete these php.ini files when all videos and it's titles are fetched.